I could not disagree more. There are plenty of viable candidates who are pro-life, don't say stupid things out loud, and can beat McCaskill. Why the opposition to the other candidates in the primary? Either of them could have stepped in to replace Akin and would have cleaned McCaskill's clock. Even someone like Talent or Kit Bond would have crushed her.
Instead, we are stuck with a pro-life candidate who sounds like a fool, who will lose an easily winnable seat, who could jeopardize Romney's chances of winning Missouri, and who will set back the chances of getting other pro-life GOP senators into positions of leadership in a GOP Senate. Six terms in the House gave Akin a taste of the power he craved in the Senate, and he chose to grasp at it instead of doing the honorable thing and withdrawing.